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View Poll Results: Do you use propane to heat your house?
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Yes
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52.38% |
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No
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47.62% |
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01-22-2014, 03:17 PM
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Location: Michigan
29,377 posts, read 53,415,985 times
Reputation: 21977
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I use propane and electric heaters to heat my Trailer.
By Elisha Fieldstadt, Staff Writer, NBC News
As meteorologists on Monday added up to 10 inches of snow to their frigid forecasts for the Northeast and Midwest this week, the regions are struggling with a lack of the essential resources residents need to keep warm.
While the cold won’t be quite as unbearable as the Polar Vortex system earlier this month, people in the Great Lakes, interior Northeast, and northern New England can expect to be shoveling, according to Weather.com.
Propane shortage adds to winter woes - U.S. News |
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01-22-2014, 04:15 PM
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Location: Queen Creek, AZ
6,963 posts, read 10,964,630 times
Reputation: 4406
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Nope, we use natural gas. Propane heat is virtually non-existent in the Phoenix area, with most homes typically using either a natural gas furnace or an electric heat pump. Pretty much all homes (tract or custom) without natural gas service here in the Phoenix use an electric heat pump. As for homes with natural gas service, tract home builders typically install a natural gas furnace wherever natural gas service is available, while custom home builders will install electric heat pumps regardless whether or not natural gas service is available.
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01-22-2014, 04:54 PM
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41,817 posts, read 48,485,718 times
Reputation: 17819
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Heat pump is not a complete alternative in colder climate. If you don't have access to natural gas you're alternatives are coal, oil, propane, wood etc. Anything that can be delivered on a truck .
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01-22-2014, 04:59 PM
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24,841 posts, read 36,018,913 times
Reputation: 11523
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I am in Michigan and heat with GEO.....we do use propane for a back up.
It is VERY cold here and my propane furnace has kicked on more this year than all the other winters combined.
About five years.
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01-23-2014, 07:36 AM
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2,655 posts, read 3,953,952 times
Reputation: 1966
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In CT you never know what people have. Propane, natural gas, oil, geothermal, electric, etc. it's all used. We have natural gas with radiant hot water baseboard.
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01-23-2014, 10:03 AM
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2,947 posts, read 5,523,531 times
Reputation: 2239
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We have propane backup. Damnit!
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02-11-2015, 11:51 AM
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Location: Madbury, NH
147 posts, read 253,874 times
Reputation: 108
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In NH it is wood, propane, electric, geothermal, and natural gas......I see a few solar homes now. But we use propane and wood.....propane lately....too cold for wood, we need a second stove to heat the whole house.
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02-11-2015, 12:04 PM
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15,429 posts, read 20,149,899 times
Reputation: 28599
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We use a pellet stove with propane as a backup here near Lubbock, Texas. So far though, we've not needed much heat this year. It was 80 degrees yesterday.
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02-11-2015, 12:44 PM
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15,429 posts, read 20,149,899 times
Reputation: 28599
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HH. RE: your rep note, I have the same worry about this heat.
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